The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

AI solved a math problem that stumped experts for 80 years, revealing deeper lessons about human cognition, focus, and ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made ...

Only a few months ago, the question felt mostly philosophical: if artificial intelligence can help solve open math problems, ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

A new mathematical framework, built on a branch of number theory called adelic analysis, has produced a complete proof of the ...